Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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